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Step Into My Sessions: Loving painter’s tape!
Anna Vagin Anna Vagin

Step Into My Sessions: Loving painter’s tape!

Tip of the week: Painter’s Tape!! I use it in lots of different ways: marking play zones on the carpet, putting my own work up on the walls to organize myself, identifying race courses on the floor, and more. A while back, I realized the critical role that painter’s tape can play in tabletop games.

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Setting goals for conversation
Anna Vagin Anna Vagin

Setting goals for conversation

I’ve been combining CPPEV and SocialScales in my work. Texting is a way lots of teens and young adults have conversations (or by using Discord, etc., which is similar). This student and I put a Scale together that allowed them to think about how they used this communication platform.

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Summer means…a chatty story about personal growth…
Anna Vagin Anna Vagin

Summer means…a chatty story about personal growth…

I love finding materials that move my work to a whole new level. Several years ago, I began a deep dive into continuums, and discovered material that is exceptionally relevant to my students, especially as they moved into young adulthood and beyond. Their purpose isn’t to insist on being followed, or cue students to give us the answer we want to hear. When appropriately crafted, scales can become. . .

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Helping Our Students Understand Discouragement
Anna Vagin Anna Vagin

Helping Our Students Understand Discouragement

We’ve been talking about resilience, perseverance, and disappointment this past month. Such important concepts and feelings – always worth discussion! Well, this time around, I’d like to add discouragement to the mix. . .

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Helping Our Students Understand Disappointment
Anna Vagin Anna Vagin

Helping Our Students Understand Disappointment

Welcome back 👋 to Part 2 of my mini-series about Fostering Resilience. If you missed Part 1, you can catch it here. Let’s pick up where we left off, using Soar, by Alyce Tzue to explore a story about not giving up. . .

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